This Video Perfectly Explains Why Simone Biles Is the World’s Most Ridiculously Awesome Gymnast

It’s difficult to truly comprehend the level at which Simone Biles towers over her competition. (A word we use very loosely.)

The 19-year-old gymnast is has won 10 career Gold medals at the World Championships, and 14 overall — both all-time records. She’s won three straight All-Around World Championships, and four straight All-Around U.S. National Championships. And on Tuesday, she led the U.S. team to Gold with a dominant victory in the All-Around.

So how does she do it?

The New York Times endeavored to find out. They produced a brief video which dissects the physics of Biles’s Floor Exercise routine — which includes a maneuver called “The Biles” that apparently no one else even attempts.

NBC analyst and former Olympic Gold medalist Nastia Liukin tries to give context to Biles’s staggering ability.

“Normally, the separations between first and second place could be three-tenths (of a point), or five-tenths,” Liukin said. “And (Biles) goes out and wins by one or two points.”

That’s really good. Like, 2015 Serena Williams good or 2000 Tiger Woods good.

Watch the full video above, via The New York Times, for more.

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